Language Review. He returned to Melbourne, and from 1911 to 1918 was editor-in-chief of Parker's Mining Standard, shortly renamed Australian Statesman and Mining Standard. In August 1914 he published Germany and Good Faith, a history of Prussia's royal family. It was a considerable work of scholarship which was praised by the Times Literary Supplement and enjoyed good sales. He was a member of the Melbourne Shakespeare Society and its president from 1919 to 1921. In 1914 he gave the society's annual lecture, a plea for the fuller recognition of the other dramatists of the Elizabethan period. The text of the lecture was published as The Place of Shakespeare in Elizabethan Drama. He was himself writing plays about this time, and two of them were produced at Melbourne by Gregan McMahon: The Taint in 1915, and The Superior Race in 1916, both well received, neither has been revived since nor published in book form. Oliphant was a founding member of the Mermaid Play Society, whose first production, Beaumont and Fletcher's The Knight of the Burning Pestle was staged at the Church of England Girls' Grammar School hall on 2 October 1919, produced by Arthur Goodsall. Everyman followed on October 28, then The Winter's Tale, The Comedy of Errors and The Critic, all produced by Goodsall. In October 1920 Everyman was produced by Mrs F. L. Apperly, an MA from Dublin University and a longtime member of the Irish Players. Oliphant's contribution to the workings of the society has not been determined. In 1925 he left for America, where he was appointed lecturer in Elizabethan drama at Stanford University, California, also acting as guest lecturer at other American colleges and universities. In 1927 Yale University published his most important work, The Plays of Beaumont and Fletcher, his study on the relative contributions of the two dramatists. Two years later he brought out in New York Shakespeare and his Fellow Dramatists in two volumes. Oliphant was then associated with New York University. He returned to Melbourne in 1932, and was appointed Sidney Myer lecturer in Elizabethan drama at Melbourne University, a post he held for the rest of his life. He was a popular figure on radio, known for reading and discussing short story masterpieces on 3LO 1932–1936 He died at his home at South Yarra and his remains were cremated at Springvale after a private funeral. Plays The Taint – a man